Monophonic texture was the dominant musical texture from 200 CE to 1300 CE during the early Christian era. It involves a single melodic line with one part sung or played. The best example is plainchant or plain song, which were ritual melodies used in early Christian churches that rose and fell in pitch with the words. In the 6th century, Pope Gregory I collected all existing chants and arranged them for use in Roman churches. Neums were an early notation system using curved lines to indicate pitch, while the staff introduced lines to notate pitch in the 11th-12th centuries.

1. Textures
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2. Monophonic
Texture
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3. Monophonic Texture
The Christian era in music encompasses the development of the
monophonic music from 200 CE to about 1300. The sacred and
secular melody continued to develop.
Monophonic- Type of musical texture in which only part one part is
sung or played by one or more performers. In modern language, it is
similar to the infusion style of singing or playing.
Monophony- Greek word which means “single sound”

4. Monophonic Texture
Best Example of Monophonic music:
-Plain song
-Ritual melody of the early Christian Church
The melody rises and falls with the holy words of the
rituals.

5. Monophonic Texture
The earliest European music, which has executed in a form
of chanting, was sung in Christian Churches. Most of this
chants were taken from the Book of Psalms. Chanting
developed into extended lines with free flowing melody
from the simple recitation of the psalms..

6. Monophonic Texture
The singers no longer kept to one sound for each syllable.
Instead, they allowed their voices to rise And fall in an
uninterrupted stream of sound on singable words as
Alleluia or Amen. In addition, hundreds of melodies were
invented. In the sixth century, all the existing chants were
collected by Pope Gregory I and arranged in an order to be
observed by roman churches

7. Monophonic Texture
Neums- Greek word for “sign”.
- The Church’s first experimental music notation.
- Series of short curved lines that followed the rise and fall of the voices.
Cleff-Horizontal line running from the beginning to the end of the chant with a
letter against it.
- Used to show what level of pitch the line represented.
Staff- four parallel lines introduced in the 11th and 12th centuries.

8. STAFF

9. Activity:
Guess the jumbled word below.
1. cphnominoo
2. tihcnang
3. gporeoyrepgi
4. flcef
5. umens
Monophonic
Chanting
Pope Gregory I
Cleff
Neums

10. Written Activity: Write the answers in your notebook.
For numbers 1-2, answer True or False. Write TRUE if the sentence is
correct, and write FALSE if it’s not.
1. The chanting rises and falls with the holy
words of the rituals.
2. The best example of monophonic music is the
plain song, and the ritual melody of the early
Christian Church.

11. Written Activity: Write the answers in your notebook.
For numbers 3-10, choose the letter of the correct answer.
3. The Christian era in music encompasses the development of the monophonic music from 200 CE
to about _.
a. 1000 CE
b. 1300 CE
c. 1150 CE
4. It is a greek word which means "single sound".
a. Chanting
b. Monophonic
c. Monophony
5. Which period of music is Monophonic texture included?
a. Medieval Period
b. Renaissance Period
c. Prehistoric Period

12. Written Activity: Write the answers in your notebook.
For numbers 3-10, choose the letter of the correct answer.
6. Monophonic music is a type of musical texture in which performed by one or more performers.
How many part/s is sung or played when performed?
a. one part
b. two parts
c. three parts
7. The four or five parallel lines were called .
a. Sign
b. Cleff
c. Staff
8. How many melodies were invented?
a. thousands of melodies
b. hundreds of melodies
c. millions of melodies

13. Written Activity: Write the answers in your notebook.
For numbers 3-10, choose the letter of the correct answer.
9. In the sixth century, all the existing chants were collected by .
a. Pope George I
b. Pope Gregory I
c. Pope Grant I
10. In what book does the chants were taken from?
a. Book of Dark Ages
b. Book of Music
c. Book of Psalms

14. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of
spirit, and never dies.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

15. Thank You!